Sunday, December 25, 2016

I just want to wish all of my beautiful friends, followers, Sponsors, and Design team, a very bright and joyous holiday season! May you all be surrounded by family, friends, comfort food and lots of laughter!

Friday, December 16, 2016

This is our end of the year challenge for 2016! We have had so many amazing challenges this year and we thank all of the friends new and old, that have stopped by every week to play along with us or to just say hello. Thank you!

A very BIG thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors who have graciously supported us and sponsored us this year.

The entire Design team and I want to wish each and every one of you a very joyous and Happy Holiday season and a very Happy and healthy new year!

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Welcome to another mid-month challenge at Dies R US! The theme for this challenge is "SNOW"!! And I am sure many of you have already seen the pretty white stuff or may be looking at it right outside your window! Brrr it is cold here in New Jersey and we are expected to see our first snow flurries tomorrow! Maybe we will have a nice white Christmas! Speaking of Christmas, wow! Like really it is only 10 days away!!! **Doing the happy dance** I LOVE Christmas and one of the things I associate with Christmas is SNOW! So here is what I made for this challenge today!

I used my Tag Dies and Tag layer dies from My Creative Time for my tag. The tag layer was cut using some PP from October Afternoon and the tag was cut using some Canson XL 140lb watercolor paper. I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors to create a light watercolor washed background using two different shades of blue. I wanted to keep the background very light, to give a blizzardy look. I added some snowy hills that I cut by hand and decided to add some snow to give the illusion of a blizzard with the falling snow! I added the snow by using a snow stencil and some texture paste. Then I set that to dry. While that dried, I stamped and colored the trees and that adorable bunny from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day Stamps using my zig watercolor markers. I cut them out using the Snow Day dies and then started to build my scene by adding in the trees. I added foam adhesive to the back of the trees and popped them up, some behind the hills and some on the outside of the hills to give depth. I was trying to create a "forest" look. The sweet little bunny is also popped up on foam adhesive and enjoying his snow day! The sentiment came from an older MCT set and I thought it was perfect for this tag! To finish this tag off, I added some green and white bakers twine to the top and tied it into a bow and used my Deco Art snow writer to add "fresh fallen" snow to the trees. Then I took my white gel pen and added in a few "snow dots" on the trees and the bunny, so that it makes it look like it is snowing and coming down hard! :) I hope you like my little snowy tag!

Here are a few other photos~

Well that is all I have for you today my friends. I appreciate you for taking time out of your day to visit me and see what I am up to. Please don't forget to stop by the Dies R US challenge blog to see what the rest of my design team sisters have created for you today. And make sure to link up your own project too! And for more inspiration, check out the Dies R US Inspiration blog . You will find yourself browsing for awhile. There are so many gorgeous projects that will surely inspire you and get your creative mojo flowing. I want to wish each of you a very Happy Holiday season and a Happy & healthy new year!!! Thanks again for stopping by!

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